keltoi hit the NAIL ON THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK U! see im not a bigot after all! i have been saying time and time again for Christians its all about how they feel, the emotions etc etc, that feel good happy sad factor that makes them feel all warm and fuzzy.
for Muslims its about truth and evidences and FACTS, not warm fuzzy emotional feelings.
But what you are saying is NOT what Keltoi actually said:
I would even agree that Christianity is more emotional than Islam. A faith based around a God of mercy who through love experienced torture, suffering, and death to achieve atonement for human beings leads to an emotional spirituality.
He said that it is more emotion than Islam, not that it is emotional. And in saying that it leads toward an emotional spirituality, it is saying first that it is a form of spirituality. But Christianity is neither purely emotion, nor devoid of emotion.
We recognize that we have fallen short of what God desires for us in our lives. We experience a type of godly
sorrow as we become aware of how far we have fallen short, and no matter all of our good deeds we are still not holy as God would have us be holy. We feel
remorse at the depth of our sinfulness. We recognize the utter
futility of trying to become righteous by shear effort as if we could somehow pull ourselves up by own bootstraps, and we become
ashamed of the pride we have exhibit toward God that somehow he should be pleased with us when all our righteousness is like filthy rags. And we recognize that we not nearly as close to God as we would like to think we are and that instead we are totally and
utterly lost without him. Then, in the midst of the
despair over our eternal condition, we hear the good news of salvation and redemption available for those who trust in Christ. This good news produces a well of
hope that springs up within us. We turn to Christ and with
joy receive the gift he offers to us, that we who are not God's people might be accepted as sons and daughters of God, joined to him by the work of Christ. We find
peace and
contentment as we once again are living in fellowship with God. And we
rejoice all the more when we see others experience this same salvation. These are the emotions of our journey with Christ, but it is first and foremost a spiritual journey. It might produce emotions within us, just as observing the work of God in a sunset or the Grand Canyon always produces emotions within me. But the emotion is just a by product of my celebration of what God has done and is doing in me. They are neither a means nor an end to any part of the journey.
Are there not emotions like these I have mentioned (highlighted above) in Islam?
